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Awesome! Living in Denmark, this is huge news! I would have thought they would place it in Germany or the Netherlands, but in Denmark we can provide the datace
by jafingi 12y ago
Awesome! Living in Denmark, this is huge news!
I would have thought they would place it in Germany or the Netherlands, but in Denmark we can provide the datacenter with 100% green energy, and this is one of the main concerns for Apple.
I wonder what the 300 people would work with, since just maintaining the datacenter wouldn't require that many people. So hope they're moving other jobs to Denmark, and accumulate different job positions there.
- kristiandupont 12y agoI am Danish too and I am not sure why we should be able to offer 100% green energy better than the German or the Dutch..?
- jafingi 12y agoOf course not - but Viborg has plenty of energy, and a brand new 400 kV connection [1]. Would be ideal by Apple to use that, and they've probably gotten a good offer. [1] http://energinet.dk/DA/ANLAEG-OG-PROJEKTER/Anlaegsprojekter-el/Ny-400-kilovolt-ledning-Kassoe-Tjele/Sider/default.aspx http://energinet.dk/DA/ANLAEG-OG-PROJEKTER/Anlaegsprojekter-...
- jlouis 12y agoThe primary reason is a long investment in wind energy, which could be a good reason for Apple to pick up Denmark.
- funkyy 12y agoIsland country (at least partly) will have easier job to provide wind or even solar energy than Germany and Netherlands. There is also a benefit of pretty predictable wave and tide energy sources...
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoThere's a number of datacenters being built in the Netherlands; one way up in the low-populated areas (actually closest to Denmark), IIRC bought by Google. They're even building a power line to Germany so that they can get power from there, where it's a bit cheaper than in the Netherlands itself.
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